A lot of people have built homes from disused airplanes. Nothing new there.
This is "much ado about nothing" from a rich woman interested in some self-serving publicity about how wonderful she is.
A "meditation pavilion"? Really? She recycles a couple wings, which are rather easily to recycle anyway by melting them down, but then throw away most of the airplane instead of using the fuselage as a home. Then, as others have mentioned, she cuts the top off a mountain for her feminine palace-thing.
And the "use all parts of the Buffalo" quote is more self-serving crap. First of all, it's a Bison, not a Buffalo. Second, they only "used all parts" because they were bloody hard to obtain. You try killing a giant, angry bull with a rock and a stick and see how hard it is.
When times were good, and they had lots of bison, they just cut off the best parts and left the rest to rot--this can be documented from the multiple "buffalo jump" sites where they chased Bison off cliffs. You take all the parts from a couple because you need them, but when it gets down to the end, you just cut off the humps and tongues. The "perfectly ecological Native American" is a myth invented by Europeans. The Native Americans are the same as humans all over the globe. What a shock.
Agreed, what about all of the work of Willem Kolff?
We've had artificial hearts for years. The first long-term artificial heart implant into a human was Dr. Barney Clark, who despite multiple medical problems (the US FDA only approved implantation of the early hearts into patients who were already at an end-of life status) lived for 112 days.
The modern version of that heart is now used as a transplantation bridge and has been implanted over 800 times. The basic problem with the Kolff/Jarvik heart design was one of materials science from the early 1980s; we just did not have the polymer science to prevent some of the clotting problems.
There are multiple LVADs and other similar products out there. This has been an active area of research for ~40 years, and we've been implanting products like this since 1982.
So how is this big news?
This has nothing to do with an EEG. This is proof-of-concept for using a micromachined array.
The fact that the LA Times article did not understand it should not surprise you.
What idiot modded this up? It's clearly a troll, from an AC at that. I would be willing to go so far as to say that this person strongly favors socialized medicine to come up with such a ridiculous "knee jerk" comment.
Yeah, I've heard that a lot. That's a quote used by people who don't drive rough roads.
Try driving a lot of roads in the western deserts with a 2WD. After getting stuck a half-dozen times in my buddy's new truck, I now refuse to go except in my 4WD. We do better in my 12 year old vehicle than his brand new one, plus I don't tear up the roads by spinning my wheels.
Totally agreed. Charging everyone is NOT a good idea. I live in a rugged city in the west and I am an outdoors person; I've been hiking and 4WD driving on tough roads for >20 years now, and I've never called for help (though I've been in trouble a couple times). But if I do get in serious trouble, I want to know that I could call.
Otherwise what will happen is people won't call until a situation goes from "bad" to "emergent", and people will get killed. It's just a fact.
Punish major idiots ("I got tired on the trail and want a ride back to my car"), but don't punish everyone.
"If someone is only making $170 a week in take home pay, maybe they should stop paying for fucking cable. There are bigger priorities at that point."
Cable is provided free to the municipality as part of the franchise agreement..
Most of the schools probably removed their TV equipment for OAB as part of the switch to the free cable. My high school removed theirs in 1986, I pulled it out myself.
In this CBS News link, it is reported that Rosenberg--like almost everyone else in Park City--is actually fron Los Angeles. This is also covered in the complaint filing.
CBS news writes that she was walking down the middle of the road when she was hit. This is a VERY busy multi-lane road, with a lot of SUVs full of Californians rushing to Deer Valley driving well over the posted speed limit.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the person filing a lawsuit under what is basically the Nuermberg Defense is Jewish? Or at least has a Jewish name....
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It depends on your level in society. With a high enough status, the rules don't apply.
A lot of people have built homes from disused airplanes. Nothing new there.
This is "much ado about nothing" from a rich woman interested in some self-serving publicity about how wonderful she is.
A "meditation pavilion"? Really? She recycles a couple wings, which are rather easily to recycle anyway by melting them down, but then throw away most of the airplane instead of using the fuselage as a home. Then, as others have mentioned, she cuts the top off a mountain for her feminine palace-thing.
And the "use all parts of the Buffalo" quote is more self-serving crap. First of all, it's a Bison, not a Buffalo. Second, they only "used all parts" because they were bloody hard to obtain. You try killing a giant, angry bull with a rock and a stick and see how hard it is.
When times were good, and they had lots of bison, they just cut off the best parts and left the rest to rot--this can be documented from the multiple "buffalo jump" sites where they chased Bison off cliffs. You take all the parts from a couple because you need them, but when it gets down to the end, you just cut off the humps and tongues. The "perfectly ecological Native American" is a myth invented by Europeans. The Native Americans are the same as humans all over the globe. What a shock.
Agreed, what about all of the work of Willem Kolff? We've had artificial hearts for years. The first long-term artificial heart implant into a human was Dr. Barney Clark, who despite multiple medical problems (the US FDA only approved implantation of the early hearts into patients who were already at an end-of life status) lived for 112 days. The modern version of that heart is now used as a transplantation bridge and has been implanted over 800 times. The basic problem with the Kolff/Jarvik heart design was one of materials science from the early 1980s; we just did not have the polymer science to prevent some of the clotting problems. There are multiple LVADs and other similar products out there. This has been an active area of research for ~40 years, and we've been implanting products like this since 1982. So how is this big news?
This has nothing to do with an EEG. This is proof-of-concept for using a micromachined array. The fact that the LA Times article did not understand it should not surprise you.
What idiot modded this up? It's clearly a troll, from an AC at that. I would be willing to go so far as to say that this person strongly favors socialized medicine to come up with such a ridiculous "knee jerk" comment.
He is clearly trolling, people.
Yeah, I've heard that a lot. That's a quote used by people who don't drive rough roads. Try driving a lot of roads in the western deserts with a 2WD. After getting stuck a half-dozen times in my buddy's new truck, I now refuse to go except in my 4WD. We do better in my 12 year old vehicle than his brand new one, plus I don't tear up the roads by spinning my wheels.
Totally agreed. Charging everyone is NOT a good idea. I live in a rugged city in the west and I am an outdoors person; I've been hiking and 4WD driving on tough roads for >20 years now, and I've never called for help (though I've been in trouble a couple times). But if I do get in serious trouble, I want to know that I could call. Otherwise what will happen is people won't call until a situation goes from "bad" to "emergent", and people will get killed. It's just a fact. Punish major idiots ("I got tired on the trail and want a ride back to my car"), but don't punish everyone.
"If someone is only making $170 a week in take home pay, maybe they should stop paying for fucking cable. There are bigger priorities at that point."
Cable is provided free to the municipality as part of the franchise agreement..
Most of the schools probably removed their TV equipment for OAB as part of the switch to the free cable. My high school removed theirs in 1986, I pulled it out myself.
In this CBS News link, it is reported that Rosenberg--like almost everyone else in Park City--is actually fron Los Angeles. This is also covered in the complaint filing. CBS news writes that she was walking down the middle of the road when she was hit. This is a VERY busy multi-lane road, with a lot of SUVs full of Californians rushing to Deer Valley driving well over the posted speed limit. Does anyone else find it ironic that the person filing a lawsuit under what is basically the Nuermberg Defense is Jewish? Or at least has a Jewish name....